{"id":43603,"date":"2026-02-05T21:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T08:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=43603"},"modified":"2026-02-05T21:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T08:07:13","slug":"brought-to-you-from-inside-middle-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2026\/02\/05\/brought-to-you-from-inside-middle-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Brought To You From &#8220;Inside Middle Earth&#8221; :)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tis a long weekend ahead, plus it&#8217;s summer here as well &#8212; <em>and<\/em> I&#8217;ve been beavering away on my <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2026\/01\/29\/inside-the-writing-life-hunting-infelicities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">infelicity hunt<\/a>, so it really does feel like time for a little &#8220;inside Middle Earth&#8221; magic. To which end, this particular photo is taken very close to the location that became the Westfold of Rohan in <i>The Two Towers<\/i>. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>Also, I&#8217;m aware some of you in more northern climes are feeling the cold right now, so I post this by way of a promise of brighter skies ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Be careful out there, one and all. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-43604 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ida-Valley_JG_Jan-22-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Ida Valley sunset, Central Otago; photo credit: J Grimmett\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ida-Valley_JG_Jan-22-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ida-Valley_JG_Jan-22-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ida-Valley_JG_Jan-22-113x150.jpeg 113w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Ida-Valley_JG_Jan-22-rotated.jpeg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tis a long weekend ahead, plus it&#8217;s summer here as well &#8212; and I&#8217;ve been beavering away on my infelicity hunt, so it really does feel like time for a little &#8220;inside Middle Earth&#8221; magic. To which end, this particular photo is taken very close to the location that became the Westfold of Rohan in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43603"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43608,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43603\/revisions\/43608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}